Don Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 Normally, I would have posted this topic and link on Ozarkhunters forum. Since it is currently disabled, I thought I would share it here. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3220965 Don Don May I caught you a delicious bass.
Terry Beeson Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 Click here for snopes take on the picture... It's pretty obvious that there are some camera tricks going on there... Always check snopes.com for this stuff... TIGHT LINES, YA'LL "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil
RiverRunner Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 Having lived for several years in the great state of Alabama where the large specimen was taken, I called some of my friends with "inside" knowledge to get there take on this. According to the paper in Birmingham, the pig was killed on a fenced hunting preserve in Clay County, in the Piedmont country near Anniston, AL in East-Central Alabama. The area where the animal was killed is not classic wild boar country, its rolling highlands with a lot of pine and some hardwoods with a lot of rock. Most people that I know who target wild boars do so in lowland areas (south Alabama has many wild boars, not so many in the north). The story that my friends have been telling me is that this operation is cross-breeding "wild" boars with domesticated hogs and feeding them high-protein catfish feed in hopes of growing them to giganitc sizes. The report is this animal was pretty much tame and that the shooter's dad paid big bucks so that his kid could kill it and get some publicity. IMHO, while the size of the animal is impressive, its nothing more than a publicity stunt for some high-dollar "hunting preserve". The real Hogzilla (killed in GA) was a wild animal that was killed in fair chase. I would say that this animal was not killed that way. I would bet that they simply led the thing out on a rope and let the kid blast away with his pistol. According to the dad, he did plan to get 700 lbs of sausage out of it. So I imagine that they will be eating well for a while. Like I said, the whole thing smells like a stunt.
gonefishin Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 I dont really doubt the weight of the hog. I think the pic however, was staged or altered to make the hog appear a lot bigger than it really is. The biggest hog I ever seen was a farm raised boar that weighed close to 900 lbs; he was an awesome site but he did not look near as large as the one portrayed in that pic. I would rather be fishin'. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759
skeeter Posted May 30, 2007 Posted May 30, 2007 This whole thing smells like that pig does. The report I read said the eleven year old boy shot the hog several times with a .50 cal. handgun. It also said the boy was backed up by two guys with rifles in case the pig charged the kid. They better have been there as I'll bet the kid, although appearing to be a Bubba Jr. size wise, would have been picking himself up off the ground each time he let that .50 cal go
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